To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
HENRI BERGSONEurope is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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